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[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, Chills said:

That isn't a serious question?

Completely serious. Are you claiming some sort of insider knowledge of what the government & its contractors are working on but not making available to the public? Or are you just guessing about it?

[Chills]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

Completely serious. Are you claiming some sort of insider knowledge of what the government & its contractors are working on but not making available to the public? Or are you just guessing about it?

Yes and no.  I had, until I retired a year ago, a specialist electronics and software company that supplied to List-X companies.
There is a vast amount that is not in the consumer world.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, Chills said:

There is a vast amount that is not in the consumer world.

So what does that have to do with the use of AI technology by consumers? Do you have even a shred of evidence that what you (I assume) supplied to your "List-X companies" used some sort of AI technology or was adapted to use it if it was not?

This whole thing begins to sound increasingly farfetched & contradictory the more you say about it, particularly your insistence that there is nothing new about how it is being used, either by governments, consumers, or whatever. There is ample evidence that it is being used in new ways in many different fields, graphics being just one of them.

[SallijaneG]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

There is much more to it than just the hardware. The most significant changes are the new & innovative algorithms used to train the AI's to recognize objects & the sizes of the datasets the AI's are trained on, which are massively larger than even just a few years ago.

So no, AI's could not previously do what they can do now by using these new algorithms & these increasingly massive datasets.

Moreover, there is every reason to assume they will continue to get better at object detection at an ever increasing rate, & even begin to be able to identify things like shadows  & reflections that are not in the normal sense objects.

My biggest concern is the amount of energy it needs and the cost, both financial and environmental—including environmental justice issues—that it will require.  (EJ in terms of both dirty generation in EJ communities and redirecting of affordable energy away from working-/middle-class communities.)

(Have I mentioned that I am not a great capitalist?)

[R C-R]

47 minutes ago, SallijaneG said:

My biggest concern is the amount of energy it needs and the cost, both financial and environmental—including environmental justice issues—that it will require.  (EJ in terms of both dirty generation in EJ communities and redirecting of affordable energy away from working-/middle-class communities.)

I am not sure what you mean by EJ communities vs. other types of (economic?) communities but there are many concerns about how AI technology will be deployed & used, by whom, & for what purposes. Among other things it no longer takes the resources of a government or large corporation to use it for nefarious purposes.

[SallijaneG]

On 9/18/2024 at 6:59 PM, R C-R said:

I am not sure what you mean by EJ communities vs. other types of (economic?) communities but there are many concerns about how AI technology will be deployed & used, by whom, & for what purposes. Among other things it no longer takes the resources of a government or large corporation to use it for nefarious purposes.

Sorry, environmental justice—I should have formally defined that.  In the U.S. at least, and likely overseas with possible different criteria, communities that are largely folks who make low incomes, whether very rural or urban communities, often but not always people of the global majority (Black and Brown), where projects such as incinerators and gas-fired power plants are often located.  Example from history, the film COOKED: Survival by ZIP Code, about the 1995 heat wave that killed more than 700 people in Chicago, largely Black, elderly, and in what is now often called “environmental justice” neighborhoods.  We didn’t do much better, if at all, with COVID-19—essential workers, often from EJ communities with jobs that could not be done from home, often using public transportation, were hardest hit.  I fear these people being deprived of energy to feed expanding AI—if not directly, being priced out.

[henryanthony]

On 9/18/2024 at 6:01 PM, SallijaneG said:

My biggest concern is the amount of energy it needs and the cost, both financial and environmental—including environmental justice issues—that it will require.  (EJ in terms of both dirty generation in EJ communities and redirecting of affordable energy away from working-/middle-class communities.)

(Have I mentioned that I am not a great capitalist?)

This just in from Bloomberg: The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it, agreeing to sell all the output to Microsoft Corp. as the tech titan seeks carbon-free electricity for data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom.

[SallijaneG]

2 hours ago, henryanthony said:

This just in from Bloomberg: The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it, agreeing to sell all the output to Microsoft Corp. as the tech titan seeks carbon-free electricity for data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom.

This is a big problem for residents there; I work with folks on decommissioning issues, and we are all concerned that there are plans to keep old, embrittled reactors open for decades after end of design life.  Residents have good reason not to trust the NRC; I recommend watching the film Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island (https://radioactivethefilm.com).

The investor community is salivating over new small modular reactors, even though the only company that had a model approved, NuScale Power, had most of its potential customers drop out because of delays and cost (https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nuscale-power-uamps-agree-terminate-nuclear-project-2023-11-08/). 

Edited September 20, 2024 by SallijaneG
include link to film’s Web site

[bici]

So I just found about this today: 

In 2014, Guy  Kawasaki  resurrected the title “chief evangelist” and joined a Sydney-based company called Canva. 

10 years now! 

[PaulEC]

On 3/26/2024 at 8:08 AM, Ash said:

Additionally we will be setting up a Q&A session about this acquisition in a few weeks time. More info on how to take part in this will be sent on email and posted on this forum in the coming days.

Did this ever happen? If so, I missed it! Is there a transcript or a recording of it available somewhere?

[bbrother]

8 hours ago, PaulEC said:

Did this ever happen? If so, I missed it! Is there a transcript or a recording of it available somewhere?

I will tell you a secret but don't spread it over to others and maybe sit down because it might shock you. That Q&A session was a bluff to calm down the anxiety.🤭

[PaulEC]

I wasn't really expecting much, especially as Ash hasn't even visited the forums since June! 

[Chills]

3 hours ago, bbrother said:

I will tell you a secret but don't spread it over to others and maybe sit down because it might shock you. That Q&A session was a bluff to calm down the anxiety.🤭

I suspect he may have meant it when he said it but...   Things have probably been moving and changing a lot.  So any Q&A on a moving target would have been pointless. 

Added to which, having seen this sort of thing before, whilst Ash might have wanted to do it, and as Serif would have done it, Canva PR-Media team will have got involved and wanted to micromanage.  They move slower and with the changes mentioned above what Ash envisaged and where Canva PR were heading the lot ended up in the long grass.   There will be a Q&A but you can bet it will be a safe corporate one in months time not weeks.